[Mageia-dev] wayland in cauldron (was Re: [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release weston-0.95.0-1.mga3)

[Olivier Blin]

JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com> writes:

>>> You can also try it inside of a X11 session, which seems to be safer, by
>>> running "weston".
>
> It doesn't work for me under nvidia propietary driver:
>
> werewolf:~> weston
> Date: 2012-07-25 CEST
> [16:48:50.407] weston 0.95.0
>                http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
>                Bug reports to: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=weston
>                Build:
> [16:48:50.407] OS: Linux, 3.4.6-desktop-1.mga3, #1 SMP Fri Jul 20 18:40:37 UTC 2012, x86_64
> couldn't open /home/magallon/.config/weston.ini
> [16:48:50.407] Loading module '/usr/lib64/weston/x11-backend.so'
> [16:48:50.429] initializing x11 backend
> couldn't open /home/magallon/.config/weston.ini
> libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
> [16:48:50.494] EGL version: 1.4 (DRI2)
> [16:48:50.494] EGL vendor: Mesa Project
> [16:48:50.494] EGL client APIs: OpenGL OpenGL_ES OpenGL_ES2
> [16:48:50.494] EGL extensions: EGL_KHR_surfaceless_gles1
>                EGL_KHR_surfaceless_gles2 EGL_KHR_surfaceless_opengl

[...]

> failed to get cairo egl argb device

Hello,

It seems to use EGL over DRI2, which is missing some extensions, likely
because of the nvidia driver that is not supported.

You can try to run it in software, with llvmpipe:
EGL_SOFTWARE=true weston

-- 
Olivier Blin - blino